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You might have been hearing about sugar substitutes like Stevia and wondering if they are safe.
Well, there are lot of non-nutritive or calorie- free sugar substitutes like NutriSweet or
Equal or Splenda and then there is Stevia. They all have a similar effect on the body
that you need to be aware of and that is they taste sweet even though they don't have any
added calories to them. Now what happens when your tongue tastes sweet, it instantly sends
a message to your brain, to your body to start producing insulin because your body is expecting
carbohydrates to follow that sweet flavor so when your body starts producing more insulin
and there is no sugar for it to shuttle around and get rid of from the blood system that
can lead to insulin resistance over time and people who are using sugar substitutes to
lose weight actually find they are having hard time with it or even gaining weight over
time so all of those sugar substitutes can have the opposite effects of what we use them
for, which is to try to lose weight. Now Stevia may be safer to use than all of the other
man-made processed non-nutritive sweeteners. Why is that? You can actually get Stevia in
its most natural form which is a leaf. You can grow Stevia very easily as a plant, in
your house, in your backyard. You can use those leaves to add them to tea, add them
to your beverages, to naturally sweeten your beverages. That is not gonna cause any health
problems that have been related to things like, NutriSweet, like saccharine. There aren't
studies showing that it's associated with cancers, anxiety and headaches like those
non-nutritive sweeteners. So using Stevia in its natural state might be the best option
for you.